Eating: Benny is still nursing a few times during the day, along with taking a couple bottles of formula when Erik feeds him. The last couple of weeks he was refusing solids and we realized that he had a couple teeth coming in! The first two bottom teeth have made their way through and now he is accepting food again. : ) He seems to really like the orange veggies...carrots and sweet potatoes and squash. He also enjoys peaches mixed with bananas and vanilla Yo-Baby yogurt. He won't really eat more than a small amount at a time but we'll take it! He also likes Cheerios! He seems to really love those a lot more than the baby puffs we'd been giving him. He tends to just sog those babies up and then they end up stuck to his high chair seat or on the floor.
Sleeping: Last week we began the 2-3-4 nap schedule and it seemed to work out for us right away. Ben's sleeping at night has been terrible for the past 5-ish months and now it is shaping up nicely. He goes down for his first nap of the day 2 hours after he wakes up in the morning. Then, his second nap of the day is 3 hours after the time he wakes up from his first nap. Then he goes to bed for the night 4 hours after he wakes up from his 2nd nap. He is just getting up twice during the night now. Erik will give him a bottle one of the times and I will nurse him the other. Hopefully we can cut out that first time he wakes up so we're just down to 1 wake-up a night. I feel so much more rested now that he is sleeping 2 long stretches. Before we started the new nap schedule he was waking up 4 or 5 times during the night. It was torture.
Development: Benny has been sitting up since he turned 5 months old. He just loves to sit and play and be able to see what's going on. He seems to be scooting around on his bottom because we'll sit him down someplace on the hard wood floor and he will be in a completely different spot when we look at him again. He hasn't started to crawl yet and I think it might be awhile. I can hope anyways! We will need to baby-proof the house! It is nice to sit him on the kitchen floor with a couple spoons to play with while we cook or do dishes. It seems to keep him happy and busy for a little while.
At his 6 month check up he was in the 30th percentile for height and weight so he is still our little guy, but he is very healthy!
Ben is a very happy baby! He no longer covers his ears with his hands...he is adjusting to his loud baby cousins. ;-) He seems to really love it when Erik gets home from work, he will smile and be excited for Daddy to pick him up. He has started pointing when Erik carries him around, directing where he would like to go. It is really sweet because he almost always points to where I am. : )
